Fast-growing Twitter may have found one of its best uses in publishing yesterday as agents, editors and writers found themselves curiously obsessed with a #queryfail thread started by agent Colleen Lindsay. As she described it on her blog, “a group of online agents, book editors and periodicals acquisition editors are posting about their queries in real time. The idea is to educate people about what exactly it is in a query that made us stop reading and say ‘Not for me.'” Or at least make people laugh. As a taste, we pulled a selection of our favorite lines and stitched […]
